Former president Thabo Mbeki on Sunday challenged South Africa’s leadership to ask if they are living up to Nelson Mandela’s standards, in a pointed public challenge to his ANC comrades.
“I think to celebrate his life properly we need to ask ourselves a question about the quality of leadership,” Mbeki told a prayer gathering at the Oxford Shul synagogue in Johannesburg.
“To say: ’to what extent are we measuring up to the standard they (Nelson Mandela and his generation) set in terms of the quality of leadership?’”
The leadership of the ruling African National Congress, previously headed by Mandela and Mbeki, has come under increasing fire over claims of nepotism and corruption.
The ANC under Zuma is preparing for national elections next year even as he faces accusations of using $20 million worth of taxpayer money on upgrading his private residence.
Mbeki said the remaining task of transforming South Africa into a truly free, fair and equal society was “in many respects more difficult than the struggle to end the system of apartheid”.
“Surely that must mean that therefore this challenge of leadership becomes much more important, much more complex in the context of what needs to be done,” he added.
Mbeki, South Africa’s president until Zuma took over in 2008, said South Africans must examine their loyalty to the values that Nelson Mandela and his generation had espoused.
“Are we in whatever echelon of our society, whatever we are doing in politics, in business, in unions, in civil society ... do we have the quality of leadership such as was exemplified by Mandela and others, sufficient to respond to the challenges we face?” he said.
“As we celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela this becomes a central task, that we reflect on what needs to be done to sustain his legacy, to ensure that we do not betray what he and others sacrificed for, what he and others stood for.”
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2013/12/08/mandela-s-death-raises-leadership-questions-mbeki
http://www.ubuntuparty.org.za/2013/12/legal-notice-to-jacob-zuma.html
ReplyDeleteLEGAL NOTICE TO JACOB ZUMA - Incorporation of South Africa
This is a reminder of the legal notice that was served on South African president, Jacob Zuma, via the State Attorney on the 1st May 2013. We have had no response or communication whatsoever regarding this critical issue. The people should be outraged and I trust that the people of South Africa will recognise the crimes being committed against each and every one of us by an illegitimate government - using the unwitting police and military to enforce their fraudulent activity – allowing the banksters and multinational corporations to enslave the people.
1. We require to view, or to obtain, for public scrutiny, a certified copy of the original registration documents, founding statement and title deeds of this corporation called the REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA.
2. Who authorised that the REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA was to be registered as such and why?
3. Who is the CEO of this corporation?
4. Who is the accounting officer and what financial statement does it produce?
5. What are the assets of this corporation?
6. Are these assets traded by this corporation – if so, how and where, and who is accountable for trading these assets?
7. Who are the shareholders of the corporation and how are they appointed?
8. What is the relationship of the people of South Africa to this corporation called REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA.
9. Is there any agreement between the people and/or citizens of South Africa and the REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA? If so, where are those agreements and when were they entered into?
10. Do the people of South Africa have any obligations to this corporation, and if so do they have the right to renounce such obligation?